State ex rel. McClendon v. Simmons

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poché, J.

This ease involves the right to the office of Treasurer of Claiborne parish, and defendant appeals from a judgment decreeing relator to be entitled to the office.

Both parties claim to have been elected tó the office on the same day by the police jury. The official minutes of the body for that day, which are in evidence, contain the following entry : “When, on motion, the board proceeded to the election of parish treasurer, and after several ballots, R. T. McClendon was elected treasurer for four years next ensuing,” and the proceedings of the…